HantSfamiLyMediation.org.uk
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Hampshire Family Mediation - Home Page
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Child Issues
Mediators work with parents to assist them to make decisions about their future role as parents, which continues after the ending of the adult relationship. Mediators work to help parents focus on the ‘welfare needs’ [see Children Act 1989] of the children rather than their own personal preferences.
Parenting agreements which set out how a whole variety of arrangements for education, holidays, medical issues, religious matters and many others can be agreed –before they happen. The Government has sponsored a Parenting Plan booklet and also guides for children and young people whose parents are separating. Copies are available from mediators and at www.lcd.gov.uk
Parental Responsibility. Married parents automatically have ‘PR’ as do all mothers. Fathers who have not been married to the mother of their child can acquire PR by agreement or application to court.
